Policy Seminars

RICHES organised two Policy Seminars, entitled “New Horizons for Cultural Heritage – Recalibrating relationships: bringing cultural heritage and people together in a changing Europe“, to discuss how the project can provide insights to support evidence-based policymaking in Europe.

The seminars comprised political updates by representatives from the European Parliament and the European Commission, the presentation of policy recommendations from the RICHES project and Round Table discussions involving major stakeholders.

First Policy Seminar

DATE: 19 October 2015, 14:00 – 17:30

LOCATION: Nowotny Auditorium, Covent Garden building of the European Research Council, 16 Place Rogier, Brussels

The programme of the seminar offered to participants the opportunity to challenge institutional points of view with some practical results of the research conducted by RICHES, with particular regard to the following themes:

​The need to develop and to use a common taxonomy.

​Innovation in copyright frameworks and open access to data and information.

European identity, belonging and the role for digital cultural heritage: structures for social and territorial cohesion and minority communities.

Two overarching themes (Citizenship and Safeguarding of CH) have been selected and discussed among the participants in world café style discussion groups with the aim of providing ‘joined-up’ policy recommendations to be used in the definition of the H2020 work programme for 2018-2020.